REPORT OF ANNUAL MEETING. 
409 
Report of the Meeting of the Royal College of 
Veterinary Surgeons. 
The Twenty-first General Meeting of the members of the 
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons was held at the rooms 
of the College, 10 Red Lion Square, on Monday, the 2nd of 
May, William Ernes, Esq., President, in the chair. 
The advertisement convening the meeting, and the minutes 
of the previous general meeting having been read, the 
Secretary read the Annual Report of the Council as follows: 
The Council have to report that at its first meeting for the 
year the following gentlemen were elected as officers of the 
College, viz.:—W. Ernes, Esq., President; Messrs. M. J. 
Harpley, C. Dickens, W. G. Goodwin, W. Aitken, Edwin 
Harrison, and B. C, R. Gardiner, Vice-Presidents; and Mr. 
W. H. Coates, Secretary and Registrar. 
At a subsequent meeting of the Council, the committee 
appointed last year to inquire into the status of the veterinary 
profession brought up its report, recommending that a Bill 
to be laid before Parliament, having for its object the im¬ 
provement of the position of the veterinary surgeon, be pre¬ 
pared; ^whereupon the Council appointed a special committee 
to carry out the recommendation. A draft of a Bill was 
accordingly prepared, entitled ‘The Veterinary Medical 
Act/ which, having been laid before the Council and duly 
considered, was submitted to the opinion of Mr. Garrard, 
the legal adviser of the College, and was returned by him to 
the Council in the following form: 
Whereas, her present Majesty, by Royal Charter beariug 
date the 8th day of March, in the seventh year of her Reign, 
did for herself,'her heirs and successors, grant unto Thomas 
Turner, and to certain other persons therein named, together 
with such others as then held Certificates of Qualification to 
practise as Veterinary Surgeons, granted by the Royal Vete¬ 
rinary College of London or by the Veterinary College of 
Edinburgh respectively, and such other persons as respectively 
then were and might thereafter become Students of the Royal 
Veterinary College of London, or of the Veterinary College of 
Edinburgh, or of such other Veterinary College, corporate or 
incorporate, as then was or thereafter should be established for 
the purposes of education in Veterinary Surgery, whether in 
London or elsewhere in the United Kingdom, and which Her 
Majesty and her successors should under her or their sigu 
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